How do Sebastian Faulks and Robert Frost present the pilight of children
How do Sebastian Faulks and Robert Frost present the plight of children in “The Last Night” and “Out, Out-“? Compare and contrast the methods of the two authors.
In the two pieces I will be analysing how the two writers use different methods in order to get emotion out of reader and in what light do they portray the children’s’ unfortunate fates. Both of the writers make the reader feel sympathy for the main characters because the main characters are both still in their youth and they both face the same fate – death. Although the characters are portrayed in very different situations, both writers show how powerless they are to avert their fate.
Both Robert Frost and Sebastian Faulks use the theme of youth and innocence of young children being corrupted. This creates a pitiful and upsetting mood for the reader because typically when a young infant is involved in a harsh or distressing scene, it makes the reader almost mourn for that child who’s life will end to soon and mourn for their childhood that was not lived. You can see this when Faulks writes ‘the children were spared the last hours of the wait by their ability to fall asleep where they lay, to dream of other places’, this shows how the children were kept in the dark about what was really happening or that they didn’t fully understand the terrible fate they will face the next day. The use of the word ‘spared’ suggests that they were free and found some sort of escape from the dreadful situation in which they are trapped, as well as using the word ‘ability’ gives the reader the impression that it is a valuable skill and that they are gifted to be able to fall asleep and forget. Likewise in ‘Out,Out-‘ you can see the youth and innocence of the boy when Frost says ‘big boy doing a man’s work, though a child at heart’; the use of contrast within this line shows the disparity between a man and a boy who is not able to physically to do this man’s work. It really makes the reader contemplate why this boy, who
In the two pieces I will be analysing how the two writers use different methods in order to get emotion out of reader and in what light do they portray the children’s’ unfortunate fates. Both of the writers make the reader feel sympathy for the main characters because the main characters are both still in their youth and they both face the same fate – death. Although the characters are portrayed in very different situations, both writers show how powerless they are to avert their fate.
Both Robert Frost and Sebastian Faulks use the theme of youth and innocence of young children being corrupted. This creates a pitiful and upsetting mood for the reader because typically when a young infant is involved in a harsh or distressing scene, it makes the reader almost mourn for that child who’s life will end to soon and mourn for their childhood that was not lived. You can see this when Faulks writes ‘the children were spared the last hours of the wait by their ability to fall asleep where they lay, to dream of other places’, this shows how the children were kept in the dark about what was really happening or that they didn’t fully understand the terrible fate they will face the next day. The use of the word ‘spared’ suggests that they were free and found some sort of escape from the dreadful situation in which they are trapped, as well as using the word ‘ability’ gives the reader the impression that it is a valuable skill and that they are gifted to be able to fall asleep and forget. Likewise in ‘Out,Out-‘ you can see the youth and innocence of the boy when Frost says ‘big boy doing a man’s work, though a child at heart’; the use of contrast within this line shows the disparity between a man and a boy who is not able to physically to do this man’s work. It really makes the reader contemplate why this boy, who